Litchfield County Quitclaim Deed (Corrective) Form
Last validated July 31, 2026 by our Forms Development TeamFormatted for recording in Litchfield County, for property anywhere in the county: rural and unincorporated areas as well as Bantam, Barkhamsted, Bethlehem, Bridgewater, Canaan, Colebrook, Cornwall, Cornwall Bridge and 35 more.
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Litchfield County Quitclaim Deed (Corrective) Form
Fill in the blank Quitclaim Deed (Corrective) form formatted to comply with all Connecticut recording and content requirements.
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Example of a properly completed Connecticut Quitclaim Deed (Corrective) document for reference.
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Where to Record Your Documents
Barkhamsted Town Clerk
Barkhamsted, Connecticut 06063-3340
Hours: Mon, Tue, Thu 9:00 to 4:00; Wed 9:00 to 5:00; Fri 9:00 to 12:00
Phone: (860) 379-8665
Bethlehem Town Clerk
Bethlehem, Connecticut 06751
Hours: Mon closed; Tue-Fri 9:00 to 12:00; Tue 5:00 to 7:00; 1st & 3rd Sat 9:00 to 12:00 (exc July & Aug)
Phone: (203) 266-7510 Ext 207
Bridgewater Town Clerk
Bridgewater, Connecticut 06752
Hours: Mon, Wed-Fri 8:00 to 12:30; Tue 8:00 to 3:30
Phone: (860) 354-5102
Canaan Town Clerk
Falls Village, Connecticut 06031-0047
Hours: Mon-Thu 9:00 to 3:00
Phone: (860) 824-0707 Ext 10
Colebrook Town Clerk
Colebrook, Connecticut 06021
Hours: Mon-Thu 9:00 to 12:00 & 1:00 to 4:30; Fri 9:00 to 12:00
Phone: (860) 379-3359 Ext 213
Cornwall Town Clerk
Cornwall, Connecticut 06753
Hours: Mon-Thu 9:00 to 12:00 & 1:00 to 4:00
Phone: (860) 672-2709
Goshen Town Clerk
Goshen, Connecticut 06756
Hours: Mon-Thu 9:00 to 12:00 & 1:00 to 4:00; Fri 9:00 to 1:00 and by appt
Phone: (860) 491-3647
Harwinton Town Clerk
Harwinton, Connecticut 06791
Hours: Mon, Tue, Thu 8:30 to 4:00; Wed 8:30 to 6:00; Fri 8:30 to 12:30
Phone: (860) 485-9613
Kent Town Clerk
Kent, Connecticut 06757
Hours: Mon-Thu 9:00 to 4:00; Fri 9:00 to 12:00
Phone: (860) 927-3433
Litchfield Town Clerk
Litchfield, Connecticut 06759
Hours: Mon-Fri 9:00 to 4:30
Phone: (860) 567-7561
Morris Town Clerk
Morris, Connecticut 06763
Hours: Mon-Wed 8:30 to 4:00; Thu 8:30 to 6:00; Fri & 1st Sat 8:30 to 12:00
Phone: (860) 567-7433
New Hartford Town Clerk
New Hartford, Connecticut 06057
Hours: Call for hours
Phone: (860) 379-5037
New Milford Town Clerk
New Milford, Connecticut 06776
Hours: Mon-Fri 8:00 to 4:00
Phone: (860) 355-6020
Norfolk Town Clerk
Norfolk, Connecticut 06058
Hours: Mon-Thu 8:30 to 12:00 & 1:00 to 4:00; Fri 8:30 to 12:00
Phone: (860) 542-5679
North Canaan Town Clerk
North Canaan, Connecticut 06018
Hours: Mon-Fri 9:30 to 12:00 & 1:00 to 4:00
Phone: (860) 824-7313 Ext 106
Plymouth Town Clerk
Terryville, Connecticut 06786
Hours: Mon-Fri 8:30 to 4:30
Phone: (860) 585-4039
Roxbury Town Clerk
Roxbury, Connecticut 06783
Hours: Tue,Thu 9:00 to 12:00 & 1:00 to 4:00; Wed, Fri 9:00 to 12:00
Phone: (860) 354-3328
Salisbury Town Clerk
Salisbury, Connecticut 06068
Hours: Mon-Fri 9:00 to 3:30
Phone: (860) 435-5182
Sharon Town Clerk
Sharon, Connecticut 06069
Hours: Mon-Thu 8:30 to 12:00 & 1:00 to 4:00; Fri 8:30 to 12:00
Phone: (860) 364-5224
Thomaston Town Clerk
Thomaston, Connecticut 06787
Hours: Mon, Tue, Wed 8:00 to 4:00; Thu 8:30 to 6:00; Fri 8:30 to 12:00
Phone: (860) 283-4141
Torrington City Clerk
Torrington, Connecticut 06790
Hours: Mon-Wed 8:30-4:00; Thu 8:30-6:30; Fri 8:30-12:30
Phone: (860) 489-2236
Warren Town Clerk/Registrar
Warren , Connecticut 06754
Hours: Mon, Thu 9:00 to 1:00; Tue, Wed 9:00 to 4:00; Fri closed
Phone: (860) 868-7881 Ext 101
Washington Town Clerk
Washington Depot, Connecticut 06794
Hours: Mon-Fri 9:00 to 12:00 & 1:00 to 4:45
Phone: (860) 868-2786
Watertown Town Clerk
Watertown, Connecticut 06795
Hours: Mon-Fri 9:00 to 5:00
Phone: (860) 945-5230
Winchester Town Clerk
Winsted, Connecticut 06098-1697
Hours: Mon-Wed 8:00 to 4:00; Thu 8:00 to 7:00; Fri 8:00 to 12:00
Phone: (860) 738-6963
Woodbury Town Clerk
Woodbury, Connecticut 06798
Hours: Mon-Fri 8:00 to 4:00
Phone: (203) 263-2144
Recording Tips for Litchfield County:
- Bring your driver's license or state-issued photo ID
- Ensure all signatures are in blue or black ink
- Check margin requirements - usually 1-2 inches at top
- Leave recording info boxes blank - the office fills these
- Make copies of your documents before recording - keep originals safe
Cities and Jurisdictions in Litchfield County
Properties in any of these areas use Litchfield County forms:
- Bantam
- Barkhamsted
- Bethlehem
- Bridgewater
- Canaan
- Colebrook
- Cornwall
- Cornwall Bridge
- East Canaan
- Falls Village
- Gaylordsville
- Goshen
- Harwinton
- Kent
- Lakeside
- Lakeville
- Litchfield
- Morris
- New Hartford
- New Milford
- New Preston Marble Dale
- Norfolk
- Northfield
- Oakville
- Pequabuck
- Pine Meadow
- Plymouth
- Riverton
- Roxbury
- Salisbury
- Sharon
- South Kent
- Taconic
- Terryville
- Thomaston
- Torrington
- Washington
- Washington Depot
- Watertown
- West Cornwall
- Winchester Center
- Winsted
- Woodbury
Hours, fees, requirements, and more for Litchfield County
How do I get my forms?
Forms are available for immediate download after payment. The Litchfield County forms will be in your account ready to download to your computer. An account is created for you during checkout if you don't have one. Forms are NOT emailed.
Are these forms guaranteed to be recordable in Litchfield County?
Yes. Our form blanks are guaranteed to meet or exceed the applicable formatting requirements used for recording in Litchfield County, including margin requirements, font requirements, and other layout standards. This guarantee applies to formatting, not to the legal sufficiency of information entered by the user or the suitability of a form for a particular transaction.
Can I reuse these forms?
Yes. You can reuse the forms for your personal use. For example, if you have multiple properties in Litchfield County you only need to order once.
What do I need to use these forms?
The forms are PDFs that you fill out on your computer. The free Adobe Acrobat Reader is recommended, and most PDF apps also work. You do NOT enter your property information online - you download the blank forms and complete them privately on your own computer.
Are there any recurring fees?
No. This is a one-time purchase. Nothing to cancel, no memberships, no recurring fees.
How much does it cost to record in Litchfield County?
Recording fees in Litchfield County vary. Contact the recorder's office at (860) 379-8665 for current fees.
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A deed already sitting in a Connecticut town's land records cannot be pulled back and retyped. This corrective quitclaim deed is what goes on the record behind it: one individual Grantor, the same person who conveyed under the earlier deed, signs a second deed that identifies the first by volume and page and states the correction. Buyers search it as a Connecticut correction deed, a corrective deed, or a scrivener's error fix.
What Connecticut repairs without a second deed
Much recorded deed trouble in Connecticut is answered by statute, and that is where a correction question starts. Section 47-36aa of the General Statutes, revised by Public Act 25-136 effective July 1, 2025, runs in two registers. Subsection (a) takes conveyancing defects, a defective acknowledgment or none at all, attestation by one witness or by no witnesses, and makes the instrument as valid as if it had been executed without the defect, unless an action challenging its validity is commenced and a lis pendens recorded within two years of recording. Subsection (b) treats a second list as insubstantial, among them an omitted execution date, a flawed map reference, and a missing grantee mailing address. What sits outside those lists, and what a party wants legible on the record now rather than after a two year wait, is this deed's ground.
One Grantor, two boxes, and a stated limit
Section 8 is the working center of the form. It holds two boxes, one for the text as the Prior Deed reads and one for the corrected text, set side by side so a later title examiner sees the change without collating two instruments. Section 7 identifies that earlier instrument by title, parties, date, town, volume, page, and recording date. Section 11 puts the limit into the operative text: the deed conveys no interest beyond the interest the Prior Deed conveyed, it neither enlarges nor limits the estate except as the correction provides, and the Prior Deed stays of record. The conveyance runs on the short quitclaim form of Section 47-36c, carrying the Section 47-36f release and the narrow Section 47-36g covenant that reaches encumbrances the Grantor made or suffered.
Execution is a single sitting: one Grantor signature line, the two subscribing witness lines Section 47-5(a)(4) calls for, and one certificate tracking the Section 1-62 short form for an individual. A misspelled grantee name, and a subdivision map reference with transposed digits, present the pattern this deed recites. Two people who both conveyed under the earlier deed produce two executions, an entity or fiduciary grantor states an authority this form does not carry, and a change that moves land, adds a party, or alters the estate is a fresh conveyance. A Section 47-12a affidavit of facts affecting title states facts rather than rewriting a deed; it is recorded on its own and is not part of this package.
An exemption Connecticut deleted in 1971
Anyone arriving from another state expects a correction deed to be exempt from transfer tax by name. Connecticut is not that state. Former subdivisions (4) and (5) of Section 12-498(a), which had exempted deeds that confirm, correct, modify or supplement a previously recorded deed, were deleted by the 1971 act, and the section's history note records that deletion. Nothing in the current list restores the category, so this instrument reaches an exemption through a subdivision the list does contain, ordinarily subdivision (10), which reaches a deed whose consideration is under two thousand dollars. Classified farm, forest, open space, and maritime heritage land runs the opposite way: Section 12-504c(a)(4) still excepts by name a deed that corrects, modifies, supplements or confirms a deed previously recorded.
Recorded in the town, behind the deed it corrects
Land records here belong to the towns, so this deed reaches the clerk who holds the Prior Deed. Section 47-10 conditions a conveyance's force beyond the grantor and the grantor's heirs on recording it there. Form OP-236 travels with it, and Section 12-497 makes the filed return and any tax due a condition of recording a taxable deed. The clerk's charge is seventy dollars for the first page under the schedule effective July 1, 2025, five dollars for each page after it.
The package includes this corrective deed as a blank fillable PDF, a filled-in Farmington example carried through all thirteen sections, and a plain language guide working through the validating act, the correction and limitation provisions, the notarial steps, and the tax and recording mechanics. The materials are informational and are not legal advice.
Important: Your property must be located in Litchfield County to use these forms. Documents should be recorded at the county recording office listed above.
This Quitclaim Deed (Corrective) meets all recording requirements specific to Litchfield County.
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